Tagged George Boleyn

“War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming—making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn’t need to hate. That’s why we still nee...

Today we are so excited to be celebrating the launch of Adrienne Dillard's hotly-anticipated historical novel The Raven's Widow: A Novel of Jane Boleyn. The Raven’s Widow is a ground-breaking portrayal of o...

Couple of guys (not actually Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn)
My name is George Boleyn,
And I'd like to set things straight;
That I'm really not a monster,
And in fact I'm rather great.
I'm witty, bright a...

It was in the fictional programme The Tudors that George Boleyn was first depicted as a rapist. He brutally raped his wife anally on their wedding night. In this same programme George was also depicted as being...

Peter Straughan was facing two major problems when adapting Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies for television. The first was trying to condense two novels of around 1200 pages into six hours of television. Not t...

You have to wonder if it should really be this simple to gloss over the judicial murders of six innocent people. The Wolf Hall version of the world is decorated with a supporting cast of marionettes built of ar...

I'm am not entirely sure what the Boleyn family did to deserve Hilary Mantel. In both her novels, and the TV adaptation of her novels, the Boleyns bear no resemblance to the historical people that I have come t...

It is known that George Boleyn was a court poet. His earliest biographer, Edmond Bapst, considered George and Henry Howard to be the two gentlemen poets of Henry VIII's court who were the harbingers of the Engl...

We are all guilty of dehumanising historical figures. Even if we strive to place them in the context of their times, it is difficult to view them now without applying modern values to them. We perpetuate tired ...

It would be tempting to suggest that George Boleyn has been the victim of a certain amount of stereotyping over the centuries. But then one would have to also suggest that we have a clear picture of George Bole...

Thomas Boleyn's Funeral Brass
For centuries the black-eyed stare and mysterious smile of Anne Boleyn has captured our imaginations. It is her all-encompassing legacy that we associate with the Boleyns, one ...

Blickling Hall, Norfolk - The birthplace of George Boleyn
George Boleyn was an important man in the Tudor court, yet he spent centuries in relative obscurity. The husband of an infamous wife, brother of a c...

Clonony Castle is a Tudor period castle in Co Offaly, Ireland, built around 1500 by the MacCoughlan clan, and ceded to Henry VIII in the early sixteenth century. Tradition has it that Henry VIII gave the castle...

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